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| Crowning a Champion's Waist | |
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| Date | March 18, 2009 |
| Attendance | 2,320 |
| Venue | Florida Sports Park |
| City | Naples, Florida |
| Next Event | Throwing Hands '09 |
Crowning a Champion's Waist 2009 was a PGA pay-per-view that emanated from the Florida Sports Park in Naples, Florida on March 18, 2009. It was the first pay-per-view of the post-unionization period. The event was the culmination of the Crowning a Champion's Waist PGA World Heavyweight Wrestling Championship Tournament. The main event of the card saw Ben Crane defeat Rusty Cooledge in the finals to become the first post-unionization PGA World Heavyweight Wrestling Champion. The match was voted the tenth best match of the year in the 2009 Wrestling Contemplator Year-End Achievement Awards.
Celebrities in the crowd included Darius Rucker (who sang the Halls of Montezuma), Ted McGinley, Hoobastank, and Internet Model™ Nikki "Next Door Nikki" Sims (the special guest timekeeper for the night).
Crowning a Champion's Waist 2009 Results
- Pre-show Match: Cobb Salad, Griffin Dorff, and Larry Little Feather defeated Dingo, Ninja Mauve, and Ninja Burnt Sienna.
- Salad pinned Mauve with an assisted ace crusher.
- Pre-show Match: Buster Abbott defeated Ibrahim Lincoln.
- Abbott pinned Lincoln with a Buster Buster.
- This was Abbott's PGA debut and Lincoln's in-ring PGA debut
- "The Hybrid" Ben Crane defeated Internetico.
- Crane pinned Internetico with a Hybrid Moments.
- After the match The Puppets attacked Internetico, but Crane made the save.
- This was a quarterfinals match in the Crowning a Champion's Waist Tournament.
- Brutal Chambers defeated Snake Eyes.
- Chambers won by KO after a Brute Force and kata hajime.
- Just before the finish, Brian Genius hit Snake Eyes with a steel chair.
- This was a quarterfinals match in the Crowning a Champion's Waist Tournament.
- Pru defeated Lupe Rosalina.
- Pru pinned Rosalina with an STFD.
- GANJU defeated Ari Richter.
- GANJU pinned Richter with a backslide.
- After the match The Puppets attacked GANJU. Internetico attempted to make the save, but both were overwhelmed.
- Salvador Serpiente "defeated" Lester Balaam Jackson.
- Commissioner B. Armstrong Ruby counted the pin after Serpiente hit Jackson with a frog splash from the top rope to the floor.
- During the match, Ruby and Brandon O'Brien attacked Jackson.
- This was an unsanctioned match.
- "The Aerial Anarchy" Rusty Cooledge defeated Salvador Serpiente.
- Cooledge pinned Serpiente with a Rusty Hinge Express.
- This was a semifinals match in the Crowning a Champion's Waist Tournament.
- The Cavendish Estate (Jack Cavendish and Dawkins) defeated The Puppets (Bunraku and Mario Nyet), Lucharesu.com (GANJU and Internetico), and Snake Mind (Brian Genius and Snake Eyes).
- Jack Cavendish pinned Nyet after Ben Crane incapacitated The Puppeteer.
- The match began as a regular tag team match between The Cavendish Estate and The Puppets.
- "The Hybrid" Ben Crane defeated Brutal Chambers.
- Crane pinned Chambers with a powerslam.
- During the match, Crane's elbow was dislocated.
- This was a semifinals match in the Crowning a Champion's Waist Tournament.
- "The Hybrid" Ben Crane defeated "The Aerial Anarchy" Rusty Cooledge.
- Crane pinned Cooledge with a top rope Hybrid Moments. B. Armstrong Ruby counted the pin.
- This was the final match in the Crowning a Champion's Waist Tournament. Crane was awarded the PGA World Heavyweight Wrestling Championship.